[time-nuts] are any time-nuts also random-nuts?

Brian Kirby kilodelta4foxmike at gmail.com
Thu Dec 24 07:01:26 UTC 2009


I read an article one time about using a solar cell to generate random 
noise.

Scott Burris wrote:
> I saw this USB connected hourglass for producing random numbers:
>
> http://home.comcast.net/%7Ehourglass/
>
> Anyone pursuing perfect randomness in the same way this group pursues
> time and frequency?  Maybe cryptologists.	
>
> I'm tempted to build an ethernet connected variant of this.  Then of course
> we need a distribution mechanism.  How about RNDP, the Random Number
> Distribution Protocol?  A la NTP, clients could select for the server with the
> most randomness :-)
>
> Scott
>
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